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  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    2 down. Their bowlers are putting ours to shame.
  • LukerzLukerz
    Crawley must be one of the worst openers in history.
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    Root gone now. Their paceman are all over us.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    70-3 at the close, will be an amazing performance to get anytjing out of the game tomorrow.
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    Pope gone
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    Brook gone. All over before lunch and a loss of nearly 500 runs. Must be a record
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Stokes out in the last over before lunch. Not quite as bad as thornbury's last post, but a massive blow to lose Stokes.
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    Stokes gone in last over before lunch. He just can’t play spin unlike Gill who can play any of our bowlers.
    It’s a waste of time going off for lunch as the last 4 wickets will go for about 6 runs in a couple of overs.
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    Stokes is an all rounder, Gill a specialist batter.
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    An all rounder should be able to do both. He hardly bowls these days so he needs to start contributing more.
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    We’ve been humiliated in this test and India will be well up for Lords especially with Bumrah back.
    We need a complete bowling change but who is there.
    Doesn’t bode well for the Ashes as the Aussie bowling attack is even better than India’s. Luckily their batting line up isn’t as good as India’s so our inept attack may be able to cope.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Could be something special going on in Zimbabwe who are in the field against South Africa whose captain, Wiaan Mulder, is 367 not out at lunch on day 2, closing in on Lara's record 400no.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    buffybegood said:

    Could be something special going on in Zimbabwe who are in the field against South Africa whose captain, Wiaan Mulder, is 367 not out at lunch on day 2, closing in on Lara's record 400no.

    Or maybe not, he declared at lunch leaving himself stranded on 367no 😂🤣😂.
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    I think he did himself a favour. Getting the top score against one of the weakest Test teams around would take the shine off it. Not decrying the feat itself just that it would be a bit hollow.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    England win another toss, and this time will bat. Only one change, Archer comes in for Tongue, let's hope Carse is fully fit as he seemed to be hobbling rather a lot in the last Test with the big toe of his landing foot seemingly the problem. With Archer having his first Test for 4 years after all his injury issues, and Stokes himself only really able to bowl short spells, it's putting a lot of pressure on Woakes and Bashir.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Both openers fall just after the drinks break, 44-2.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    83-2 at lunch.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    153-2 at tea, only just over runs an over, it's like old school Test cricket.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Pope goes first ball after tea, we've not handled the breaks in play very well.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Brook goes for just 11, England are 172-4.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Not good news, Stokes appears to have a groin strain; he's going to carry on batting, but you've got to wonder whether he'll be able to bowl when the times comes, seems highly unlikely to me.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    251-4 at the close, with Root not out on 99, and the injured Stokes on 39. A very slow day, especially compared to others in the Bazball era, but the bigger worry is the injury to Stokes and the likelihood that we'll be a bowler down when we take the field.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Ton up for Root.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Stokes gone for 44, 260-5.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Root goes for 104, 271-6.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Woakes goes first ball, on review, caught behind.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    A good fightback by Smith and Carse, 353-7 at lunch.

    But then Smith falls in the first over after lunch.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Archer goes as Bumrah gets his fifth, 370-9.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    387 all out, not too bad considering where we were at times.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Archer strikes in his first, and England's second, over, 13-1.
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